Lucinda Terry’s Roanoke work included organizing membership

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An association needed people.

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Building an organization

The Library of Virginia identifies Lucinda Lee Terry as a founder of Roanoke’s Young Women’s Christian Association in 1913. She was its first membership chair and served as president from 1914 to 1919.

Different responsibilities

A membership role belongs beside the more familiar presidential title: organizations need participants as well as officers. The biography places Terry among comfortable white civic organizers of her era.

Her record is one perspective on Roanoke’s community life, not evidence that everyone enjoyed equal access or shared her experience.

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2019 biography excerpt retrieved October 18, 2026.

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